Tonight I opened the very first bottle of "Tulpehocken Trap" a Belgian Trappist style clone.It's only been two weeks since I've bottled it, but this one is going to be a real winner.
The strong Belgian yeast strain flavors really come though well in this beer. It is a wonderful copper color with a bold, but balanced flavor.
These bottles need to sit a while longer, as they are not yet fully carbonated. I roused the yeast in all the bottles to make sure that the bottle-conditioned carbonation reaches the proper level; it looks like much yeast had reached sedimentation.
This beer is named after the valley region between the Blue Mountains and the South Mountains that surround my home town of Womelsdorf. The Tulpehocken valley, meaning "land of turtle" in its Indian origin, is 322 square miles of beautiful farm land that is sometimes referred to as the Lebanon valley. Cheers!
